Richard Steele (1672 – 1729)
Irish writer and politician, remembered, along with his friend, Joseph Addison, as co-founder of The Spectator magazine.
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Of all the affections which attend human life, the love of glory is the most ardent.
I was going home two hours ago, but was met by Mr. Griffith, who has kept me ever since. I will come within a pint of wine.
I am come to a tavern alone to eat a steak, after which I shall return to the office.
When you fall into a man's conversation, the first thing you should consider is, whether he has a greater inclination to hear you, or that you should hear him.
Will Honeycomb calls these over-offended ladies the outrageously virtuous.
Though her mien carries much more invitation than command, to behold her is an immediate check to loose behavior; to love her is a liberal education.
A little in drink, but at all times yr faithful husband.
Age in a virtuous person, of either sex, carries in it an authority which makes it preferable to all the pleasures of youth.
No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience…
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.
Among all the diseases of the mind there is not one more epidemical or more pernicious than the love of flattery.
The finest woman in nature should not detain me an hour from you; but you must sometimes suffer the rivalship of the wisest men.
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